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Anarchist activist Peter Kropotkin managed to escape from a low-security prison in Saint Petersburg. He hid himself in one of the finest restaurants there and later moved to England. [3] The notorious outlaw Billy the Kid managed to escape from prison in 1881, but was captured and shot by Pat Garrett only a few months later.
The scale of the statuette's diminutive size (132.7 x 69.5 x 36.8 cm) indicates that it might have derived from a 13th-century south German mystical belief that the Virgin, in her grief, imagined Christ as an infant once again as she held his body after the crucifixion, [4] and that his burial shroud is instead his swaddling clothes. [8]
Its Gothic chapel was built in the 13th century with a single nave and equipped with a gallery from the late 16th century, and an apse decorated with frescoes from the 17th. At the end of the 16th century, the Trinitarian Order founded a monastery here. Several objects originating from the chapel are now preserved in the church at Mosset.
The painted crypt of San Isidoro at León, Spain The "Morgan Leaf", detached from the Winchester Bible of 1160–75. Scenes from the life of David.. Romanesque art is the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 12th century, or later depending on region.
13th-century fortifications (3 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century" The following 151 pages are in this category, out of 151 total.
Caerphilly Castle (Welsh: Castell Caerffili) is a medieval fortification in Caerphilly in South Wales.The castle was constructed by Gilbert de Clare in the 13th century as part of his campaign to maintain control of Glamorgan, and saw extensive fighting between Gilbert, his descendants, and the native Welsh rulers.
"Sir Gawaine challenges Sir Launcelot", Howard Pyle's illustration from The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur (1910) Joyous Gard (French Joyeuse Garde and other variants) is a castle featured in the Matter of Britain literature of the legend of King Arthur.
The Murasaki Shikibu Nikki Emaki (紫式部日記絵巻) is a mid-13th century emaki (Japanese picture scroll) inspired by the private diary of Murasaki Shikibu, lady-in-waiting at the 10th–11th century Heian court and author of The Tale of Genji.